Quotes and Sayings about Surprises
"Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow."
- Isabelle Adjani
(Related: Passion, Surprises, Tomorrow)
"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable."
- Jane Austen
(Related: Pleasure, Surprises)
"I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises."
- Bob Barker
(Related: Experience, Talent, Care, Living, May, Surprises)
"That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises."
- Peter Bart
(Related: Movies, Surprises)
"What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons."
- Hans Blix
(Related: People, Military, Surprises, Weapons)
"The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises."
- Daniel J. Boorstin
(Related: Experience, America, American, Fact, Mankind, Surprises, World)
"One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself."
- Orson Scott Card
(Related: Mind, Questions, Surprises)
"One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends."
- Jean Cocteau
(Related: Dream, Friends, Habits, Nothing, Regret, Strangers, Surprises)
"With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us."
- Eric Allin Cornell
(Related: Surprises)
"I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me."
- Andrew Cuomo
(Related: Government, Politics, Nothing, Surprises)
"I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises."
- Catherine Deneuve
(Related: Movies, Actor, Regret, Surprises)
"Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides."
- Jacques Derrida
(Related: Surprises, Will)
"I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time."
- John Dyer
(Related: Love, Time, Sea, Sky, Surprises, Water)
"Sometimes it is better to begin the journey, to get under way, then it is to sit back and wait until such time that you're convinced that all conditions are perfect and that there'll be no surprises along the route."
- John Engler
(Related: Time, Journey, Surprises)
"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."
- Henry Ford
(Related: Man, Surprises)
"It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set."
- Lasse Hallstrom
(Related: Time, News, Open, Surprises)
"It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something."
- Jesse Helms
(Related: Surprises)
"When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it."
- Lance Henriksen
(Related: Fantasy, Film, Horror, Surprises)
"But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide."
- Arthur Hertzberg
(Related: Thought, People, Court, Law, Right, Separation, Surprises, Years)
"I get a lot of recognition for my voice. That always surprises me."
- Moira Kelly
(Related: Surprises, Voice)
"I'm dumbfounded, but nothing surprises me in this game."
- Francis Lee
(Related: Nothing, Surprises)
"I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me."
- Loretta Lynn
(Related: Life, Time, Surprises)
"What to do? We yanked the dress up over her lovely attributes and with the addition of a scarf, the problem was solved. Sorry, guys, blame that stuffy censor. He hated surprises."
- Audrey Meadows
(Related: Blame, Dress, Surprises)
"A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant."
- Wilson Mizner
(Related: Drama, Surprises)
"I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else."
- Robert Morgan
(Related: Rapport, Students, Surprises)
"I do not believe they've run out of surprises."
- Larry Niven
(Related: Surprises)
"What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear. I said I try not to, but of course I'm just a normal person."
- Christopher Parker
(Related: People, Day, Surprises)
"I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics."
- Chris Patten
(Related: Politics, Surprises, Vulgarity)
"The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are."
- Jeff Probst
(Related: Change, Surprises)
"Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises."
- Lionel Richie
(Related: Love, Career, Song, Surprises)
"The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to."
- Jean Rostand
(Related: Books, Past, Surprises, Want)
"It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises."
- Stanley Schmidt
(Related: Answers, Surprises, Will)
"I've been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It's one of those surprises in life that makes you think, 'God was smiling on me that particular day."
- Dwight Schultz
(Related: Life, People, Character, Day, Surprises)
"I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom."
- John Sexton
(Related: Success, Surprises, Years)
"Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody."
- Irwin Shaw
(Related: Posterity, Surprises)
"A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises."
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
(Related: Life, Surprises)
"If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age."
- Freya Stark
(Related: Age, Faith, Life, Old, Quiet, Richness, Surprises, Will)
"The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand."
- Yves Tanguy
(Related: Eyes, Liberty, Painting, Reason, Sense, Surprises)
"I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises."
- Audrey Tautou
(Related: Surprises, Want)
"It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner."
- Vernon A. Walters
(Related: Surprises)
"They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises."
- Mary Wesley
(Related: Disappointment, May, Surprises)
"My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing."
- Kim Weston
(Related: Surprises)
"My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more."
- Kim Wilde
(Related: Life, Nothing, Surprises)
"Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets."
- Pieter Zeeman
(Related: Nature, Surprises)
"Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid."
- Rob Zombie
(Related: People, Boston, Surprises)